Identifier: oldnewlondonnarr05thor (find matches)
Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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tley ^Jon- OLD AND NEW LONDON. (Belgravia. tagu, and husband of the notorious duchess. Onthe death of his patron, in 1773, he appears to haveopened his auction-mart; but the foundation of hisfortune was laid by his purchase of the racehorse Highflyer, for the enormous sum of ^^2,500, and,it is supposed, on credit—an evidence of the highcharacter for integrity which he must have alreadyacquired. Of his personal qualities, it has beenobserved, perhaps the establishment itself is thebest testimony; what Tattersalis is now, it seems to and extended as far as the Alexandra Hotel.Here Dr. Parr used to stay when he came up toLondon from his parsonage at Hatton. Here,too, lived for some years John Liston, the come-dian, who had removed hither after his retirementfrom the stage. He had long outlived the use ofhis faculties, writes Leigh Hunt, and used tostand at his window at the Corner sadly gazingat the tide of human existence which was going by,and which he had once helped to enliven. Mr,
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Entrance to Old Tattersall's. have essentially been from the very outset—a placewhere men of honour might congregate withoutbreathing, or, at all events, in but a greatly lesseneddegree, the pestilential vapour that usually but toooften surrounds the stable ; where men of tastemight enjoy the glimpses afforded of the mostbeautiful specimens of an exquisitely beautifulrace, without being perpetually disgusted with theworst of all things—that of the jockey or horse-dealer. We shall have more to say of Tatter-salis, however^ when we come to Knightsbridge. St. Georges Place, or Terrace, now a series ofprincely mansions, was, till lately, a long row oflow brick houses, of only one or two storeys, onthe west side of the hospital, fronting Hyde Park, Planche, who was one of his most intimate friends^writes thus of this singular monomaniac : Hissole occupation was sitting all day long at thewindow of his residence, timing the omnibuses,,and expressing the greatest distress and displeasure

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